I am not a religious person, but I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church, so it's not as if I don't have a decent grasp of the values of the white evangelical voting bloc. So how do we square Donald Trump taking 53% of Iowa's white evangelical voter support last night - and since that's actually being a dip from his 2020 and 2016 numbers, is that a harbinger for his prospects this November?

That got me to wondering just how we are where we are - in an era where the white evangelical voter supports politicians who come nowhere near their moral realm? Like when Texas' governor defends letting migrants die as his forces block federal border patrol agents from doing their job.

With that taking the conversation towards immigration (and how the Bible commands God's children to treat them), I had to share what I learned yesterday: that the Biden/Harris administration has been quietly working on addressing 'root causes in migration' from Central American countries. Dealing with root causes vs slapping band-aids (like walls & detention)? What a concept!

But get this: also quietly, in Guatamala, where a progressive just won that nation's presidency, a former Trump Cabinet official has been down there stirring up near-insurrectionist obstacles to that inauguration even occurring. Could it be that Republicans want to keep the invigoration crisis going because it's a useful problem to drum up votes?